SynthieCat by Max for Cats was inspired by the EMS Synthi A model, an amazing synth released in 1971 with three oscillators and a unique patch system. The Max for Live Pack is available for Live 11 Suite.
2022 is almost over. People here are already setting off some firework crackers. So let’s first have a look at what your favourite posts here on Sonic Bloom were this year going by categories. Your Favourites on Sonic Bloom in
The tenth anniversary of Sonic Bloom is here and I’m woefully unprepared. At least for what I had in mind for today. Healing from iatrogenic harm that has caused several vicious cycles in my body made it impossible to work
Sonic Bloom turns 9 today. 9 years since I began the blog. It’s been quite a journey. For those of you who are getting my monthly newsletter you already know that I’ve been struggling with serious health issues over the
In the last few years Ableton have introduced two fantastic interactive learning resources, Learning Music and Learning Synths, that I already have written about. Now they’ve revamped their offerings for Ableton in the Classroom. Technically, these are aimed as teaching
This time Christian Kleine, aka Max for Cats, has created an amazing sibling for Color. Color Digital is a novel effect for Ableton Live 10 and up, dedicated to create digital artefacts of MP3 encoding, downsampling, bit reduction and digital
Today Ableton have announced Live 11, to be released in early 2021. As a Certified Trainer I’ve had the opportunity to check out the beta and I will be making tutorials over the coming weeks. So let’s have a look
Everything 25% Off in the Shop with Code sb8years On October 19th in 2012 I released the first tutorial on Sonic Bloom. Since then, the blog has amassed almost 750 posts each in English and German and the website has
This latest Max for Cats release coincides with Charlie’s birthday, my cat who inspired the name. TriComp is a Max for Live multiband compressor that allows for flexible sidechaining of the three variable frequency bands individually. This gives you more
Christian Kleine aka Max for Cats has been at it again. This time he has a fantastic granular delay processor for us. It’s called Grain Relay and unites grain delay, pitch shifting, reverb, downsampling and modulation in a one, easy
With Learning Synths, Ableton are now providing two free online learning resources in various languages. Learning Music, which was released in 2017, is currently available in English, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese. Learning
I’m very pleased to announce the release of my first premium Live Pack (and free version – download below) for Ableton Live 9.7 Intro and up. For this, I’ve sampled my favourite acoustic instrument, the array mbira. I discovered the
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